All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of… — Roger Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.… — Sammi Hanratty Copy Share Image
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I… — Fergie Copy Share Image
An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we… — Philip Glenister Copy Share Image
John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I've always found it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium. And people allow me to… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
Shyambazar evokes a strong sense of nostalgia in me. There's not a theatre in that area where I haven't watched a movie.… — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts,… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I want brave people. Fearless ones. A good actor just goes out and leaps off the edge and develops wings on his… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
![“The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/345/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_actors_the-amount-of-preparation-i-saw-from-som_832950.jpg)
![“[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it, no bullshit. There's no artifice, there's no fanciness, they're just honest and tough and direct.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/rob-lowe-855_actor_ed-lauter-was-an-actor-s-actor-i-love-wo_2514595.jpg)
